Retracting Documentation of Exploration of Ideas

The Science Wars Part VI

In late 2020, after I'd spent months reading hundreds of papers and keeping track of the statistics regarding the medicines used to treat COVID-19, I interviewed a few people whom I'd had online conversations with. One of those people was former Wired science journalist, Charles Platt. It was my first interview, and I certainly wasn't particularly good at it, but the conversation went well enough. And I appreciated his critique of The Lancet and his outlook on the state of science and medicine in general. He struck me as an honest journalist, with a solid-but-not-professional science background, examining evidence as he could.

Sadly, Charles has asked me to remove the video. I asked him if I could do so at the week's end, and he said that was fine. So, I would like to link to the interview here so that some people can witness the conversation, and then to think through the meaning of why we're at a point at which people feel a desire to eliminate the historical record of…just a discussion of evidence of efficacy of drugs, and how people reacted to it. I feel a bit of a shudder receiving the request.